Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 2 | Frau Trauffer and her daughter began to bring in the first of six bountiful courses . |
| 3 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 4 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 5 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 6 | During 1990-91 the Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke sought to bring about the first all-party talks since 1975 on the future of the province [ see pp. 37624 ; 37720 ; 37784 ; 37869 ; 38111-12 ; 38156-57 ] . |